Shingeki no Kyojin · 10:36pm Apr 27th, 2013
Okay, I just came across this relatively new animes opening a little bit ago, and Oh. My. God.
This is the most unbelievably awesome opening music I have ever heard. I've listened to it thirty times at least now.
So I watched the anime. And it's a good series. Excellent animation quality, a good plot(having read ahead in the manga), genuinely terrifying enemies. It's great.
Just, for people thinking about watching it, keep in mind that this is not a friendly show like dear old My Little Pony.
It's about the most incredibly scary giants I've ever seen eating people. It's kinda gruesome.
Pictured: A generic enemy in Shingeki no Kyojin, looking forward to eating the currently eight years old protagonists mother whole. While the kid's watching.
It's not exactly a surprise that protagonists explicit goal is to kill ALL the Titans.
Anyway, I enjoy shows about Friendship being Magic, and shows about people getting gruesomely eaten by giants. I'm not sure what this says about me.
Anyway, if you want to watch it, here is the first episode. So far, there are 3 episodes translated, each 24 minutes or so long.
The manga is a lot further ahead. Here's the translated manga up to chapter 44.
Yeah, it's pretty awesome. Now I have a new series to check out. Thanks.
I really liked the first OP and END for Tiger and Bunny myself, too, and would recommend it to you.
This series gets waaaaay too much negative attention for the yaoi fanart made of it, and not enough attention for the fact that it has nothing to do with homosexuals and was pretty awesome in general. Well, actually, one of the characters is gay, but he's a hilariously fabulously homosexual (go to about 12:00).
Okay, so there is some bromance. But I never saw it as anything homosexual.
...Stupid yaoi fangirls, ruining the reputation of the show with your fantasies...
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I actually have watched Tiger and Bunny before. 'Twas made of win.
I have actually managed to avoid finding any yaoi of it. I never really looked up fanart or fanfics for it, which I suppose would be the reason.
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That reminds me, I read a fanfic one where an UBW bad end Shirou (the Bad End where he jumps into the Grail to stop Gilgamesh) appears in an alternate version of Sternbild City that had alternate versions of Nasuverse characters in it, which looked really promising. It is named "ZELRETCH HERO PROJECT", and I'd recommend taking a look at it.
...Unfortunately, it is written by Deviate's Fish (if you don't know him already... and I really hope you aren't bosom buddies with him), an author with a childish temper (just look at the message he left before the chapter starts... he's basically saying "if you don't do as I say, I'll hold my breath!"... and it isn't a joke, he's serious), known to start promising multi-chapter stories with interesting premises... and then never complete or even update them, also refusing to adopt them off to writers who will complete them. He has four completed stories (all of them one shots, one of them below 500 words, another below 50 words) out of his twenty six published stories.
...Now, this doesn't give you a true sense of just how skewed the complete-incomplete ratio is since it only implies a ratio of 4:22... so I did the math to show you just how bad his trend of never finishing anything really is. I'll share that with you:
Deviate's Fish's Story Statistics
—Sums—
• Total: 26 stories; 352,599 words; 13,562 words/story average; 76 chapters; ~2.9 chapter/story average
• Incomplete: 22 stories; 339,826 words; 15,447 words/story average; 72 chapters; ~3.3 chapter/story average
• Completed: 4 stories; 12,773 words; 3193 words/story average; 4 chapters; 1 chapter/story average
—Percentages—
• Incomplete: ~84.6% total story count; ~96.4% total word count; ~113.9% total average words/story; ~94.7% total chapter count; ~113.8% total average chapters/story
• Completed: ~15.4% total story count; ~3.6% total word count; ~23.5% total average words/story; ~5.3% total chapter count; ~34.5% total average chapters/story
(No, the over 100% results are not incorrect—the word and chapter counts of the four complete stories are so low that they lower the total averages below the incomplete averages, resulting in a general ~114% conclusion...)
Yeah, I know I'm just harping on this guy, but whatever— I honestly feel that he deserves it. He was irrationally childishly rude to me when I mentioned to him that I was disappointed because I could not expect him to finish any story he ever started. I can't respect this guy anymore, which is sad because I once respected him quite a lot. While his stories are still worth reading because they're interesting, just be prepared to be disappointed by the fact that he will never update them.
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Yeah, I've read his stories before... think I rp'd with him a couple times on Beasts Lair... maybe three years ago? I'd have to dig up some really ancient threads to see if he was in them.
Don't really know him all that well. I have read his annoyingly incomplete stories before, and I agree with you on that.
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Well, you don't know how childish and self-entitled he can be, then... when I complained about him never completing any of his stories, he EXPLODED on me in a PM. Oh, and I was not the only person to receive this treatment from him. I'll admit I did say that I was disappointed with him and I wasn't exactly the most respectful person, but that did not warrant the response I got back. He started complaining about how most of the reviews for Thu'um of a Distant Utopia (and other stories) were negative (which is BLATANTLY untrue to the point of "WTF are you smoking" levels), claimed that his readers (all of them, not just me) don't appreciate him because they're "ungrateful little shits", and threatened to stop writing altogether because of it. I found that laughable, since it's not like my world would end had he stopped publishing unfinished ideas; he'd only be shooting himself in the leg in the end.
He then claimed I was a hypocrite for complaining about how he publishes stories and never finishes them, which is an amphibological false dilemma straw man argument thanks to the fact that it compares my lack of any published stories with his inability to finish his many incomplete stories, two completely different things that cannot be used to make valid conclusions regarding potential hypocrisy on my part.
After this, he promptly blocked me before I could even respond to tell him to calm the fuck down and stop having a childish self-entitled rage seizure over nothing. Then he posted that incredibly tactless and self-entitled author's note in one of his stories threatening to "never finish any of my stories if you complained about how I never finish my stories"... which always struck me as circular reasoning and a catch-22 fallacy, since the only reason anyone would complain about not him finishing stories in the first place is for the exact reason that he already never finishes any of his stories... thus, it doesn't lead to any alternate conclusion, regardless of whether or not someone complains!
It should not be a mystery as to why I no longer follow Deviate's Fish nor respect him as an author.